Launched in 2020, and extensively up to date for 2024, the Polestar 2 obtained its identify by touchdown because the younger firm’s second mannequin. It will not get replaced by a second-generation 2. As a substitute, its successor can be Polestar’s seventh automobile, and it is going to be named — you guessed it — 7.
Chatting with British journal Autocar, firm boss Thomas Ingenlath confirmed that 7 comes after 2 within the Polestar vary. “We will not replace the Polestar 2 with a Polestar 2. It will be the Polestar 7,” he introduced. The mannequin is tentatively due out within the late 2020s.
Altering the identify of a automobile from one era to the subsequent has professionals and cons. On one hand, there is not any identify recognition; Volkswagen’s Golf has gone by way of eight generations over the course of fifty years, for instance, and consumers know precisely what the nameplate stands for. Alternatively, launching a brand new nameplate offers Polestar extra potentialities because it develops the two’s successor; it is a clear break, in a approach.
“As much as we might build a very similar car, because it has a different number we won’t have this natural trap where we’re boxed into that concept of what the car had been,” Ingenlath informed Autocar. “At some point, you get into a strange situation when you’re in double-digit generations and it gets really questionable.” He added that it is too early to inform what the 7 will share with the two and the way it will stand out. The mannequin will occupy roughly the identical spot within the Polestar vary as its predecessor, nonetheless; it will not be positioned above the upcoming 6.
Polestar’s naming coverage makes it arduous to foretell what the 8 will appear to be. It may very well be a follow-up to the three, for instance, or it may very well be a brand new mannequin as an alternative of a alternative for an current automobile. Nonetheless, Ingenlath beforehand informed Autoblog a mannequin positioned under the two is unlikely to see the sunshine that awaits on the finish of a manufacturing line as a result of Polestar does not have to stretch as far downmarket as a few of its German rivals.